Package for plural articles



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m3 MENTOR Nov. 18, 1952 MOORE 2,618,380

PACKAGE FOR PLURAL ARTICLES Filed June 20, 1950 2 SHEETSSHEET 1 George rl'mgt n Moore BY I 2 I F|G.8 ATTORNEY Nov. 18, 1952 MOORE 2,618,380

PACKAGE FOR PLURAL ARTICLES Filed June 20, 1950 2' SHEETSSHEET 2 INVE'N TOR gsorge :r/ijngtzn. Mzore ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 18, 1952 PACKAGE FOR PLURAL ARTICLES George Arlington Moore, New York, N. Y., as-

signor to Reynolds Metals Company, Richmond, Va., a corporation of Delaware Application June 20, 1950, Serial No. 169,265

4 Claims.

The object of the present invention is to provide; a package for plural articles, cigars, cigarettes, bars of'soap being a few examples of the many articles for which the package is adapted.

The object of the invention is to provide a package which will enable successive removal of the articles, as they are required, and the ready repackaging as an article is removed to protect each unit which remains within the package until the last one is consumed, thus enabling pocket facility as the package gets progressively smaller, and making it easier to carry the package on ones person. The package is light in weight, is not afiected by moisture, is inexpensive to manufacture, and, in the case of cigars and cigarettes, for example, the ends of the said articles, as well as their wrappers, are thoroughlyprotected against any adhesive strike-off due to sealing operations.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the progressively foldable package liner and a plurality of cylindrical articles, such as cigars, enclosed thereby;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the completed package, part of the wrapper being broken away;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, and partly broken away, showing the form of the package after removal of one of the articles;

Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the condition of the package at a time when only one of the articles remains therein;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the package provided with a centrally disposed longitudinal seam and a rip string or tape for severing the top fold;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the package after the top fold has been severed and the closure fold opened, the top fold being ready for removal;

Fig. '1 is a fragmentary view in section showing package material consisting of an upper layer of metallic foil, intermediate layers of paper and wax, and final bottom layer of paper tissue constituting' a preferred form of wrapper;

Fig. 8 is a view similar to Fig. 7 showing a liner consisting of paper board with a facing of metallic foil, 2. score in the paper board being indicated;

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a modification showing a liner so folded and adhered as to hold a plurality of bars of soap in separate compartments;

Fig. 10 is a perspective view showing a suitable wrapper for the structure in the preceding figure;

Figure 11 is a perspective view showing the wrapper of the preceding figure opened and partly broken away, the areas of the Liner at the sides and top of the uppermost bar of soap shown. in Fig. 9 having been removed and the bar also having been removed;

Fig. 12 is a perspective view showing the form of the package shown in the preceding figure, with the wrapper folded to compactly hold the remaining bars of soap;

Fig. 13 is a modification of the liner shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the wrapper being partly broken away;

Referring to the drawings and Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive, it may be considered that the articles shown at I are cigars, as illustrative of the application of the invention. The popular use by cigar manufacturers of five cigars serves well to initiate the packaging idea in this field, and, incidentally, the same idea may be applied to cigarette packages in multiples of five. It is, of course, suitable for a variety of. packing where multiple units of a commodity or product is uniform.

The linear shown in Figs; 1 to 3, inclusive, and also as to section thereof in Figs. 7 and 8, preferably consists of a sheet of paper board 2 of relatively light gauge mounted to aluminum foil 3 on one side. The liner is cut-scored in parallel lines 4 to. sub-divide the package for each unit, and the aluminum foil is on the in side in contact with the cigars or other articles. The flat board laminated blank already cut scored is folded U shape, as shown in Fig. 1,,

and the cigars disposed with the top of the U heat sealing to form the closures is supported by the board sleeve as a backing or resistance to the pressure required.

An opening string or tape 5 can be applied over the last fold of the top closure to facilitate easy opening.

When the package is ripped open the folds are peeled back to expose the flaps 2c and 2b covering the top cigar or other article and the junctures of the flaps being cut scored are easily opened and torn off. In other words, the first section of each cut scored side wall, bent to form a flap, is raised and torn away.

These said two areas of scored board are torn out very easily, the first cigar removed, and the original side walls which encased the top cigar will now become the overlapping fiaps as shown in Fig. 3 when they are folded down. The excess wrapper margin is then folded in any convenient manner over the flaps thus repackaging the remaining cigars, as indicated in Fig. 3. This process is continued down to the last cigar, which, as shown in Fig. 4, is repackaged to keep the cigar or other article in good shape until used.

Fig. 5 shows the completed overwrapped heat sealed package and Fig. 6 shows the opening of the Wrapper at the top closure with one leg of the board side wall being removed. Obviously, the two sides may be removed along the dotted lines 6 and thrown away.

A feature of my package construction is that the ends of the articles, for example, cigars, as well as their wrappers when used, are thoroughly protected against any wax strike 01f due to sealing operations. The side seam overlap is preferably in the center of the package on one side as this formation eliminates any folding operations on either end of the cigars, thus a clean wall contact.

Using as a wrapper material that above described, the package has walls of aluminum inside except for two ends which is dry tissue and aluminum on the outside affording excellent eye appeal by gravure printing. The cigar manufacturer thus packages cigars in handy units of five with a maximum measure of protection that insures high quality over long periods of time, thus affording the manufacturers consumer outlets to heavily stocked warehouses without the risk of deterioration. The package is light in weight, is not aifected by perspiring bodies and has new and unique utility through the medium of the facilities constructed in the package to repackage in continuity with the removal of each unit. This results in an efiicient repackaging to protect each unit that remains Within the package until the last one is consumed and for pocket facility the package gets progressively smaller, thus making it very easy to carry on ones person.

In Fig. 13 I have shown a modification of the liner, it being the same as that shown in Fig. 1 with the exception that the top and flap areas of the liner are so cut as to form interlocking tabs 2a when brought down to horizontal position. In other words, the tabs overlap and the horizontal cuts at 3 permit these flexible taps to be interlocked. The figure also shows the use of separation strips Ii] of cedarwood or the like for the cigars or other articles I. The operation of the package is substantially that hereinbefore described, except that the separation strips are successively moved as the cigars or other articles are successively removed from the package.

The modification shown in Figs. 9 to 12, inclusive, is in principle the same as that shown in the preceding figures, except that the liner is corrugated in the sense that at each of the fold or score lines, indicated at H in Fig. 1, the liner which is generally indicated at l 2 is formed with an infold so that opposed 2-ply walls will hold the articles, as for example, the bars of soap I3 spaced from each other. The wrapper may be the same as that. shown in the preceding figures.

In using the package, the closure flaps 1X may be pulled apart and raised with the underlying folds, whereupon the liner flaps, which may be lightly held by spot adhesive, as at [5, are raised and torn away at a second set of scored lines which may be disposed as indicated at I4, Fig. 1, and the topmost article removed. The excess area of the wrapper may be torn away leaving a fold area for refolding to the position of Fig. 12. The entire free upper part of the wrapper may be so folded. The said operations will be conducted until the package is entirely depleted of its contents.

The nature of the wrapper is such that the refolds after removal of one or more of the articles therein, are easily made and due to the presence of the aluminum foil these folds will remain in position and will effectively protect the contents of the package from air and moisture.

Although reference has been made herein to a tearing string or tape, the latter being indicated at 5, Fig. 5, it will be understood that the tearing string or tape may be eliminated because the operator, by pressing his thumb against the wrapper at the corner where the liner material forms a ceiling, will cause the edge of the liner to pierce the wrapper, enabling the fingers to grasp the edge of the liner at the top of the package, so that the top area may be peeled off and after removing the exposed cigar or other article the liner walls laterally thereof may be folded over followed by refolding the wrapper.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. A package for plural articles consisting of a wrapper and an inner liner of relatively stiff but flexible material faced on its inside with metallic foil, a plurality of articles in superposed position in said liner, the liner being folded about four sides of said articles with the articles extending parallel to the fold, the liner being generally U-shaped, with its opposed major walls formed with spaced weakened tear lines extending parallel to the fold, the lines on one major wall being generally in registration with the lines on the like opposite wall, the spacing of the lines being proportionate to the transverse areas of the articles packaged, the liner including overlapped top flaps below which the lines of scoring progressively occur, the wrapper consisting of an outer layer of metallic foil and an inner body capable of adhesion to a surface by heat and pressure, and the wrapper having closure flaps immediately overlying those of the liner, the top of the wrapper thus being capable of opening to expose the flaps of the liner, the liner being capable of progressive removal of its sections and progressive folding of opposed sections to over-lie the stacked articles, or the final article, enclosed within the package, the excess wrapper margins, after removal of an article or articles from the package, being adapted for folding and refolding to repackage the remaining articles or article, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A package for plural articles constructed in accordance with claim 1, in which the liner is composed of a sheet of paper board having an inner facing of aluminum foil and the wrapper consists of an outer facing of aluminum foil secured to a paper layer carrying an adhesive wax body overlaid with porous tissue, the wrapper being capable of folding and refolding with the inertia of the combined foil, wax, and wax carrying tissue, maintaining the folds in the position to which they are placed by the user, to protect the repackaged articles remaining in the package after removal of overlying articles.

3. A package for plural articles constructed in accordance with claim 1, in which the liner walls are each folded inwardly at spaced areas, the said areas of one wall being in line with corresponding areas of the second wall, providing two-ply separation walls intermediate article receiving spaces of the package, the weakened tear lines being outwardly exposed.

4. A package for plural articles constructed in accordance with claim 1, in which the overlapped top flaps of the liner are formed with interlocking tabs, as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE ARLINGTON MOORE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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